英美文学Unit 8 Jane Austen and G.G.Byron.ppt

Unit 8 Jane Austen and G.G.Byron Aims of Teaching: 1.?????? Jane Austen’s art as a novelist 2.?????? Byron’s Romanticism Major Points: 1.???? Features of Austen’s novels 2.???Artistic features as reflected in the excerpt 3.???? Byron’s Romantic poetry 4.???? Poem: She Walks in Beauty I.Jane Austen (1775-1817) The English author Jane Austen lived from 1775 to 1817. Her novels are highly prized not only for their light irony, humor, and depiction of contemporary English country life, but also for their underlying serious qualities. 1.?brief introduction 2. Jane’s Obituary 3.??Art of Jane Austen Jane Austen’s Works Emma Lady Susan Mansfield Park Northanger Abbey Persuasion Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility 1.???Questions about the excerpts 1)??comment on the beginning sentence: “it is a truth universally acknowledged…..” periodic sentence etc, humor 2)? Mrs Bennet’s Character 3)???Mr Bennet’s character 4)??English society (e.g. Women’s position as reflected by the excerpts) Style of Jane Austen GII. George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) 1.???His life 2.??Features of his poems: combined satires, philosophy, picturesque description with strong passions and poetic lyricism. Byronic heroes—A kind of hero found in several of the works of Lord Byron. Like Byron himself, a Byronic hero is a melancholy and rebellious young man, distressed by a terrible wrong he committed in the past 1.?The Poem: She Walks in Beauty 1)?????? questions 2)????????translation 1.The Poem: When a man hath no freedom… 1)???explain 2)???questions Memorable quotations from Byron 1)??? The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sang, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, (still, now) But all, except their sun, is set (1 stanza, Canto III, Don Juan) 2) There is a pleasant in the pathless woods, There is rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By th